Internal Communication Plan
A manufacturing company is facing challenges in effectively communicating
with its employees. The company has grown rapidly in recent years and has
a diverse workforce of 6,500 people in 7 branches spread across multiple
locations. As a result, there are communication gaps and misunderstandings
among employees, which have led to lower morale and productivity.
Additionally, the company is planning to implement a major change, such as
transitioning to a more automated manufacturing process, and is concerned
about how this will be received by employees.
The company recognizes the importance of clear and consistent
communication to maintain a positive and productive work environment and
is seeking to develop an internal communication plan to address these
issues.
As the Internal Communications Director for this company, you have been
asked to create an Internal Communication Plan.
The Internal Communication Plan will include steps to ensure that all
employees are informed and updated on the changes and that their concerns
and questions are addressed. The company also aims to improve
communication among employees across different locations and to create a
culture of open communication and feedback.
PART 1: INTERNAL COMMUNICATION PLAN (75%)
The Internal Communication Plan should be written in report format and
include enough details and specifics that the internal communication team of
the organization could directly implement the plan if they choose to. Provide
references (APA style) wherever applicable and if you cite information that
is not common knowledge.
Please be as specific as possible when addressing each of the following
points:
1. (10 marks)
1a. Brief introduction of the organization including its history, structure,
culture, etc. Here, describe the situation that calls for the internal
communication plan, including the SWOT analysis of the organization if
applicable. (8 marks)
1b. Also, what are the internal communication issues/problems? (2 marks )
2. (20 marks)
2a. IC Plan objectives: Propose at least three goals/objectives for the internal
communication program. (6 marks)
2b. What are the expected outputs, outtakes, and outcomes? (9 marks )
2c. Audience Analysis (Who are the target audience for the internal
communication program? How is the audience segmented? (5 marks )
3. (15 marks)
3a. Strategic role (Identify the strategy or strategies for the communication
plan. (5 marks).
3b. What are the overall concepts, approaches, or general plans to achieve
the goal(s) and objectives? (10 marks)
4. (15 marks)
4a. Key Messages: (Create three key messages for this communication
campaign, What do you want the employees to know, remember, think
about, or do? (3 marks)
4b. Tactics/Channels: Describe how the messages will be communicated to
the internal audience. Be specific. Using your knowledge of internal
communication channels, apply at least seven internal communication
channels in this context. Be creative. (12 marks )
5. (15 marks)
5. Evaluation: Discuss how the internal communication efforts will be
evaluated (7.5 marks) and what will be evaluated. (7.5 marks
seed lab implementation ( Environment Variable and Set-UID Lab
Environment Variable and Set-UID Lab
This lab provides hands-on interactive activities that will allow you to gain practical experience. Carefully read through the Overview content of the lab. It provides detailed instructions for accessing and completing the labs in this course.
Click the following link to access the lab: https://seedsecuritylabs.org/Labs_16.04/Software/E…
After completing each assigned task of the lab take a screenshot showing that each step has been completed make sure to show the date and time of implementation if it is backdated you will take 0 marks as it’s plagiarism. Paste these screenshots into a Microsoft Word document with a brief explanation of what you have done in each step and submit as evidence of completion.
Last Week Tonight
As was implied on the previous page, John Oliver’s reporting on Last Week Tonight often employs the structure of academic essays with jokes thrown in. With that in mind, I’ve written the following questions, which are arranged in sections that guide you through the content and structure of the piece.
Answer the following questions about Last Week Tonight‘s piece on how the media goes about reporting crime. The video is embedded at the bottom of this page.
Because this assignment asks more questions than qualitatively similar assignments do, this assignment is worth 30 points.
Questions about the piece’s rhetorical strategy:
- List two examples of when John Oliver (the host) uses a secondary source for each of the following purposes:
- To give credence to what he’s just said.
- To argue against that source.
- To use that source’s words as a springboard to a larger point.
- What do you notice about the way that Oliver sets up/leads into quotations?
- Note the times that John reads a passage that appears on the screen verbatim. What part of an essay is this analogous with?
Content-based questions:
- What effect does Oliver’s playing the Pat Collins report (about the graffitied car) have on you as a viewer?
- In your opinion, how effective is Oliver’s reaction to the rainbow fentanyl reports? Why?
- Aside from the jokes, this piece is structured like an academic essay. Thinking of it that way, what is its thesis?
General approaches to covering crime:
- When it comes to news coverage, what notable change happened around the 1970s?
- What stands out to you about the CNN program on crime reporting that aired in the 1990s?
- How has crime reporting contributed to the public’s race-based fears?
The media’s sources in their coverage:
- According to the video, what are the problems with the media relying on police as sources of information?
- What are the shortcomings of the phrase “officer-involved shooting”?
- What is your reaction to the video’s discussion of the Minneapolis police’s handling of the George Floyd incident?
- What stands out to you about Oliver’s follow-up on Pat Camden (the Fraternal Order of Police spokesman)?
Greater harm caused by uncritical crime reporting:
- According to the piece, what are some of the effects of uncritical reporting of crime?
- What is the problem with news reports consistently saying “police say” in thei
Economics of Education PS 5
Write the name of all group members, and your responses on a single document to submit.
Estimating the Returns to Schooling
For this section we will analyze data describing individual earnings, their education and
experience profile, and other characteristics. We will dive into the economic relationship
between education and wages in this example.
Q1a. Load wagedata.csv in your workstation and name the data frame wages main.
The variable wage represents monthly wages. We want to convert this value into 2020 dollar
values. First create a variable CPI and set it equal to 0.4. Then, create a new variable
wages main$wage2020 by dividing the wage by the CPI. Use the describe function and
report the summary statistics for monthly wages in 2020 dollars. Include the mean, standard
deviation, median, max, min, Q1 and Q3.
Q1b. Let’s create an hourly wage variable. The current variable hours is average hours
worked per week. Create a variable annualhours equal to weekly hours multiplied by 52.
Also, create a varaiable annualwages, noting that the current 2020 wage measure is in
months. Next, create a variable hourlywages. Use the describe function and report the
summary statistics for hourly wages. Note any cause for concern you may have with the data.
Q1c. The education variable educ reports the highest level of education attainment for
each person in the sample. Count the number of people in the sample with each education
level. Describe what you see in 2-3 sentences. Overall, does the data align with what you
would expect?
Q1d. Produce five scatter plots and paste them here. Note that tenure is defined as years
in the current job, and experience is defined as overall years of work experience.
• Education vs. IQ (IQ on x-axis)
• Hourly Wages vs. IQ (IQ on x-axis)
• Hourly wages vs education (education on x-axis)
• Hourly wages vs tenure (tenure on x-axis)
• Hourly wages vs experience (experience on x-axis)
Q1e. Describe the findings of your scatterplots in 2-3 paragraphs. Define discrete and
continuous variables, then categorize each variable in this assignment as one or the other.
Explain the relationship between education, IQ and wages. Then describe the what you find
in terms of tenure, experience and wages. Any surprises on this visual inspection of the data?
1
Q1f. First create three new variables: Log(HourlyWage), exper2
, and tenure2
. Then, use
linear regression to estimate the returns to education, also known as the Mincer equation.
Log(HourlyW agei) = β0 + β1Educi + ϵi
.
Describe the estimate you get for βb1. Based on your results, how much does the model predict your hourly wage to rise for one additional year of schooling completed? What makes
this estimate difficult to interpret?
Q1g. Next estimate
Log(HourlyW agei) = β0 + β1Educi + βexperiencei + β3experience2
i + ϵi
.
Report the coefficient for βb1. How did it change and why?
Q1h. Substitute the tenure variables for the experience variables in 2f and run the regression again. Do your results for βb1 change much?
neurocognitive hypothesis
- Why would evolution have enabled blind mole rats to synchronize their suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) activity to light, even though they cannot see well enough to make use of the light?
- Describe the stages of sleep. During which part of a night’s sleep is REM most common?
- Unlike adults, infants alternate between short waking periods and short naps. What can we infer about their neurotransmitters?
- According to the neurocognitive hypothesis, why do we have visual imagery?
statistics
1. A study looked at whether pack years of lifetime smoking (smokepy) can predict
the level of C-reactive protein (CRP), an inflammatory marker, after controlling for age,
socioeconomic status (SES) and education. SES and education were numerical
variables; CRP was normally distributed. The results of analyses are shown below.
Significance criterion is set at p<0.05.
R-squared = .43
Adjusted R-squared = .41
Parameter Estimates
Variable DF Estimates Standard
Error
t value p-value
Intercept 1 169.39 7.92 21.39 <.001
Smokepy 1 -0.38 0.05 -7.49 <.001
Age 1 0.03 0.04 0.77 .44
SES 1 1.41 0.67 2.1 .04
Education 1 -1.66 0.87 -1.91 .06
A) What type of statistical procedure is this?
B) Describe the findings, including interpretation of all values in the column for parameter
estimates and whether or not they are significant.
C) After controlling for model complexity (i.e. number of independent variables), what is the
proportion of variability in CRP explained by this model?
2. An investigator conducted a study to find the relationship between the number of
decayed, missing, or filled teeth (DMFT) and sugar consumption. The investigator
produced an estimate for the correlation coefficient and provided the following statement:
“The correlation between DMFT and sugar consumption is 0.7. There is a strong
correlation between DMFT and sugar consumption. Therefore, it is recommended that
patients be advised to reduce sugar consumption to prevent tooth decay.”
State why you are or you are not confident about this investigator’s conclusion. In other
words, explain if something is missing from this investigator’s analysis, or if all you need
is provided.
3. You are conducting a study to analyze gender differences in neurocognitive impairment (NCI)
within a sample of cocaine-dependent methadone-maintained patients. You found 3
demographic characteristics that produced significant effects on NCI. They are gender, race,
and age.
A) What statistical analysis would you use to see simultaneously the contributions of
socio-demographic variables (gender (male/female), race (White, Black, Latino, Asian), and age
(in years) on self-reported NCI, a normal continuous outcome (higher scores indicate higher
NCI)?
B) How many independent variables will there be in your model? Describe (1) what they are, (2)
how you would create them, and (3) interpretation for each coefficient.
4. We ran an inference test to study if gender (0=female; 1= male) is associated with a
diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (t2dm: 0= absent; 1=present) on a group of patients,
controlling for age. Results table are shown as below:
Analysis of Maximum Likelihood Estimates
Estimate Standard
Error
Test statistic p-value Exp(B)
Intercept -12.77 1.9759 41.8176 <.0001 ———-
Gender 0.41 0.124 10.9799 0.0009 1.5
Age 0.0948 0.0305 9.6883 0.0019 1.09
A) What type of model is this, and why is this type of analysis appropriate in this case?
B) Describe the finding: is gender associated with diagnosis of t2dm, why or why not (provide
the test statistic and p-value)? Interpret the coefficient for gender and age.
5. In 1998, there was a major ice storm in Maine. Researchers wanted to know whether
there was an association between generator location (inside or outside) and CO poisoning
after an ice storm. Results from their case-control study are summarized in the table below
(cases are observations that have experienced the CO poisoning, controls are
observations that have not experienced the CO poisoning):
(A) What type of table is this?
(B) Name at least 2 tests you can perform to investigate the association between
generator location and CO poisoning after an ice storm.
(C) Calculate the odds ratio and risk ratio based on this table. Which one is more
appropriate for this type of study design
disorder related to the endocrine system
Imagine that you are employed at a local nonprofit agency and belong to an online community of people who work in the field of mental health. In a blog space, you are interested in sharing information on a particular disease that is related to the endocrine system function.
Select and research a disease or disorder related to the endocrine system. Refer to this week’s University Library articles to begin your research.
Write a 350- to 700-word informational blog post based on your research. Address the following in your post:
- Describe the general function of the endocrine system.
- Describe the selected disease or disorder related to the endocrine system.
- What are the underlying causes of symptoms of the disease or disorder?
- How is the endocrine system related to the causes of these symptoms?
- What are recommendations on how to treat the disease or disorder?
Lab log
Lab log 2 should include all available data from time points 0, 1, and 2 (0, 4, and 8 weeks, respectively). Attached are 2 files, one that has the step by step guidelines to the Lab Log and the other contains all the data needed. Let me know if you are unable to find them. Please do not copy anything from any website since the professor checks for plagiarism.
Note: As promised, all of your data in its current form is now posted here on Canvas under Modules in the final presentation module. A few notes:
- The qPCR data are not complete, but there are quite a few representative sets that are present. For example, all monocultures except for Durisdinium at one time point are present. Remember that this experiment remains under progress and the data are thus still being collected and compiled. Don’t let this frighten you.
- All cell count data are complete except for 7 points in the final time point. These 7 cultures were restarted one month behind the others, as the originals were compromised in various ways. This is common in science and won’t affect your results or analyses in any large and meaningful ways.
- The data sheet contains 6 tabs: 3 for symbiont density (cell count results) and 3 for qPCR, all separated by time point and organized by temperature, nitrogen concentration, and genus. pay special attention to the parts which are in green. If you don’t know what a tab is in Excel, please look it up on Google and be sure that you can access all of them. This is critical, as if you only look at the first tab, you will not have anything meaningful to present or write about.
- Hopefully you have, during your meetings, been working with the non-data portions of your talk, and that this can simply be dropped right into your presentation. I noted during our lab meetings that most of y’all were building a presentation before even leaving, so I am confident in this.
- Don’t forget to use the rubric as a checklist to get that sweet sweet A!
- AVERAGES ARE YOUR FRIEND! As always, it is inadvisable to use individual data points in your graphs and graphics. Use averages to point out trends, and don’t forget that you are bound to produce many more graphs than you intend to use, just to investigate and examine the data. (and for goodness sake, please avoid including tables in your presentation!)
- As far the qPCR data go, remember that these are EXACTLY equivalent to symbiont density data. Just think of the “log[cell count] numbers as your symbiont density, genus-by-genus.
“Some of the formatting moved a few dividers around and made it look odd.
To clarify:
gamma (looks like a little y)=Symbiodinium+Breviolum
psi (looks like a pitchfork)=Durisdinium+Symnbiodinium
phi (cirlce with line through it)=Durisdinium+Breviolum
The polycultures have the following headers in this order:
Genus-Culture Number-Ct-Melt Temperature-log[cell count]-composition-Temperature-Nitrogen
social health services for elderly population in KSA
Elder abuse is a critical social, health, and economic problemthat is varied by culture. Despite being a common global problem, it is certainly preventable.
Define the elder abuse and mention its common types.
(2 points)
2. Discuss elder abuse as a social phenomenon while illustrating the underlying social factors affecting it in the Saudi culture (4 points)
3. Mention the available social health services for elderly population in KSA (2 points)
4. Suggest the possible solutions to fight this rising phenomenon and improve the quality of life among elderly population (2 points)
PSYC1000: Conditioning and Learning Plan
complete the Conditioning and Learning Practice media piece. In this piece, you can see operant conditioning in action and have the opportunity to create operant conditioning training of your own.
Be sure to download the Conditioning and Learning Plan Worksheet now or after completing the media piece. In your worksheet, you will describe the scenario and behavior that you would like to change. Ideas include:
- Teaching your child to hang up their coat or backpack when they come in the door.
- Getting yourself to exercise a certain number of minutes a day or week.
- Teaching your dog to ring a bell when they need to go outside.
- Getting a trainee to come to work on time.
You may choose one of these ideas or think of one of your own. Think of a behavior that you would like to change in yourself or someone else. Once you identify the target behavior, think about a positive reinforcer that will work. What might motivate you, your child, your trainee, or your dog?
In the worksheet, use the language of behavioral theory to identify:
- One targeted response.
- A reinforcer and secondary reinforcer (if you plan to use a secondary one).
- Schedules of reinforcement.
- Initial schedule.
- Secondary schedule (once the behavior is stable).
- Describe how you plan to use shaping to begin the process and make shifts in how and when the behavior is reinforced.
- To achieve Distinguished level on the rubric, use the notes column to explain why you chose the behavior, the reinforcers, and schedules that you selected.
